RaveJanuary MagazineIf your trust in the U.S. government has already been waning of late...then reading Don Winslow\'s newest tour de force, The Power of the Dog, is likely to put the torch to whatever particle of faith you still possess ... The Power of the Dog is the best crime novel about the Western Hemisphere\'s drug trade I have read in many years. It will leave you stunned, but also sickened by the dark side of American democracy. Dog is relentless in the pounding it delivers to U.S. policy regarding the so-called War on Drugs (which is really tantamount to a non-war on drugs) ... The book\'s greatness doesn\'t derive solely from its astute dissection of governmental deception. This tale is elevated as well by Winslow\'s cast of evocative characters ... Author Winslow has been thorough in his research, both for historical and plotting-strategy purposes ... Winslow has written a maelstrom of a fictional political and historical book, eternally complicated, filled with killers and lovers, passion, betrayal and the quest for redemption. A book like The Power of the Dog rarely comes along, and when it does, let it break your heart and open your mind.
